Book ID: CBB353124338

Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945 (2016)

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Nguyen, Thuy Linh (Author)


University of Rochester Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 256 pages
Language: English

This book explores the interactions between French medicine and Vietnamese childbirth traditions, examining how these interactions shaped maternal and infant health care in Vietnam. Armed with the language and expertise of modern medicine, French physicians and administrators set out on a mission to relocate Vietnamese childbirth to a clinical setting. But as the French ventured into indigenous communities, they found themselves negotiating with a myriad of Vietnamese cultural practices relating to childbirth and infant care. Thwarted by local resistance, cultural misunderstanding, and ambiguous policy, the Western model of hospital birth neither displaced nor transformed indigenous birthing traditions in the ways the French had envisioned. Instead, as author Thuy Linh Nguyen demonstrates, the emergence of a plural system of maternity services, many of which were based on local practices and beliefs, served as a testimony to the compromises and adaptations made by both the French and Vietnamese populations.

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Review Margaret Cook Andersen (2018) Review of "Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945". American Historical Review (pp. 931-932). unapi

Review Arnold, David J. (2018) Review of "Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 420-421). unapi

Review Claire Edington (2018) Review of "Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945". Social History of Medicine (pp. 191-192). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Monnais, Laurence
Edington, Claire Ellen
Aso, Michitake
Sasges, Gerard
Arena, Francesca
Nguyen Thi Hoai Phuong
Concepts
Maternal health services
Colonialism
Childbirth
France, colonies
Medicine
Professions and professionalization
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
Vietnam
Indochina
South China Sea
Dublin (Ireland)
Nigeria
Edinburgh
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